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I saw this film on video yesterday and thought it was a great, compact
piece of work. Sort of a less uplifting Saturday Night Fever; beautifully shot in black and white. I'd never seen Albert Finney in anything pre-Annie either. The back of the case made it sound like one of a string of 60's british cinema classics of a similar ilk; do people know more??

― dave k, Sunday, 11 May 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was one of a string of "Kitchen Sink" dramas from the late 50s/early 60s. Some suggestions...

A Taste of Honey (my fave)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
This Sporting Life

There are probably a lot of people who know more about this than I do that can provide some additional suggestions and info.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 11 May 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of them weren't very good.

Billy Liar is the best, by a mile.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahhhh... The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner... great movie.

― PVC (peeveecee), Sunday, 11 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think of "Billy Liar" in the same way, somehow. It's just less "gritty" than the ones Nicole mentioned, I guess. But it is a wonderful thing indeed.

"A taste of honey" seems to be quite poorly regarded these days (unlike 15 years ago when it was de rigeur viewing for any discerning Smiths' fan), but I'm very fond of it. I like "Up the junction" a lot as well.

― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 11 May 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks everybody! As for this movie in particular, I'm trying to articulate what I think of it relative to the other disgruntled-young-man pictures I've seen ... What I think is true is that I like these movies more if the main character's hostility is less explicitly tied to possible causes, (but already SNF which I like a lot doesn't fit this).

― dave k, Sunday, 11 May 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' is pretty creaky I think.

But classic just for the 'HE GOES AFTER GIRLS! HE GOES AFTER GIRLS!" moment.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen that movie in 15(!) years. But I remember it being pretty good.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been trying to find this sporting life cause i love the linsday anderson/mick travis trilogy..... strangely none of the local video shops have it....

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

this sporting life is on dvd now.

― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 16 May 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A Taste of Honey is one of my favorite films ever. No, I'm not Morrissey.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 16 May 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Up The Junction
Georgy Girl
Spring and Port Wine
A Kind of Loving

― kayT (kaytee), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this "Spring and port wine" of which you speak?

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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